in childhood photos, are you smiling?

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14 Apr 2008, 1:50 pm

I've always had a tendacy to look down, not smiling. In some of the photos, I'd think I was smiling when they were being taken, when it was usually nothing more than a barely-noticable smirk. Back when I was 16 and showed one of them online, people thought I looked "uncomfortable".



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14 Apr 2008, 7:32 pm

Mine looked like a pained grimace. I was a very homely kid. If they didn't make me look up and smile, I didn't.



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14 Apr 2008, 7:56 pm

People made me smile. They wouldn't shut up about the whole come on...smile, smile SMILE Say cheese, come on say cheese!!

If I didn't smile they wouldn't stop until I did.



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15 Apr 2008, 7:33 am

Once in a while I'd be genuinely smiling, if my parents managed to snap a picture while I was actually very happy (like if I just got something really awesome that I'd been wanting for ages for my birthday). Then there were many pictures where I was smiling a forced sort of smile, because someone insisted that I smile. And there were many more pictures where I was looking away from the camera at something else, or staring off into space, or looking at someone or something else that was in the picture. Usually when I was being forced to pose for a photo, I'd be thinking, "Please. Just hurry up and get this over with so I can go back to what I was doing.."


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15 Apr 2008, 7:40 am

I try to avoid having my picture taken at all costs, but if it is required I smile(just a grin or a smirk though)



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15 Apr 2008, 8:25 am

Heck, I remember it being a chore just to get me to look at the camera.

I finally did start to smile in pictures though as I got older, more of a grin (no teeth). :lol:


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15 Apr 2008, 8:43 am

I don't have too much pictures taken when I was a child (generally I don't have too much photos of myself). Majority of them were taken at one go when I was 3 and later 9 and 10 - besides those group school photos which were posed, of course and I was doing my best to create a subtle smile on my face then - to tell the truth, every time I hoped my mother wasn't too angry at me because of my wry face in the photo. For example in my school photo taken when I was 7 my smile can be called everything but natural and even several years later I had to hear my mother complaining because of my artificial smile then.



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15 Apr 2008, 11:32 am

im oposite i smile as kid but when i was 10 i sudently stopped


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15 Apr 2008, 10:39 pm

There is an old home movie (this is from back in the day when they had no sound) and my father was literally chasing me around the room with that blasted thing. I vaguely remember wanting to get away from the bright light on it. He did not know why I kept trying to get away.
I don't like any camera pointed at me.



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16 Apr 2008, 2:52 am

I am usually not smiling in my childhood pictures, but most of them my father took and are not posed; such as me sitting on my tricycle in a park, taken when I was five or six years old. I have a framed picture taken by a professional photographer of me, my brother and my sister sitting on a settee when I was about 8 years old, in which I and my sister are not smiling, but my brother is.

In home movies I am sometimes smiling.



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16 Apr 2008, 3:40 am

Sometimes I did sometimes I didn't. I think most of the time I didn't though.

Here is an example of a common picture for me as a kid.Image